All the World Is Here! - The Black Presence at White City

" Frederick Douglass, who embodied the dream that inclusion within the American mainstream was possible, would never forget America's World's Fair snub.

List of contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One: Around the Nation

1.Expectations

2.Participation and Protest

3.Race, Class, Gender

Part Two: In Host City Chicago

4.The Domain of Work

5.The Social Order

Part Three: At the Fair

6."They Met at the Fair": Linkages

7.The Scope of Involvement

Part Four: "All the World is Here!"

8.Continental Africa at the Fair: Dahomey Village

9.On the Fairgrounds: The Haytian Pavilion

10.Diasporan and Continental Africa Meet: The Congress on Africa

Appendix I: Frederick Douglass's Speech at Colored American Day

Appendix II: Colored People's Blue Book

Appendix III: Commentaries from Midway Types

Appendix IV: "Judge," a poem by A. T. Worden

Notes

Index

About the author

Christopher Robert Reed

Summary

A look at African and African American participation in the 1893 Columbian Exposition.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Robert Reed
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.02.2002
• EAN: 9780253215352
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21535-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Weight: 386 g
• Illustrations: 35 b&w photos, 3 figures
• Series: Blacks in the Diaspora; Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperb
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore